I hope you enjoy your WE ! Here, even though summer is still present (28˚C), I made a card which illustrates the fall. For this card, I have to thank TIME OUT with its last challenge and its quote : “Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”

Ah, the fall ! The fall and its flaming colors : orange, red, yellow, brown. Well, the only snag is that we have to pick up all those falling leaves ! So, off you go ! We take the rake and we rake up ! We are happy at the end of the day because everything is raked up but what a disappointment the day after…we have to do it AGAIN !

No, no joke, as I had this image in my head while reading the quote that I needed to transcribe it on my card. I had never used the dies from Impression Obsession, those of the rake and the bucket. But who says leaves, says tree ! So I used the Memory Box die “orchad tree frame”, it gave me both, the tree and the frame. With distress inks I made a gradation with the colors of the fall on the frame.

On a white cardstock I also made a gradation with the Distress ink, then I cut the leaves with the Impression Obsession die “oak leaves & rake”. I adhered them, one by one, on the tree with Multi Medium Matte from Ranger.

For the bucket, I used the die “bushel of apples” from Impression Obsession and for the ground, I used the die “fresh cut grass” from MFT on which I adhered a layer of Flower Soft “Autumn”. The leaves in the bucket are stuck with Multi Medium Matte and those on the ground are stuck with micro Glue Dots.

On my double card, I made the sky in the background with this mask and Distress ink. It’s a technique I learned thanks to the very talented Kittie Caracciolo, she is the queen of cards with scene. I urge you to visit her blog.

To adhere the frame on the double card front, I put on the back of the frame some adhesive foam (1mm). I must say it was the most tedious work in this card ! I adhered the bucket lightly under the ground layer, then I arranged a few falling leaves to give some life to the scene. Finally I glued the rake on both the tree (Multi Medium Matte) and on the ground (an adhesive foam tape on the gray central part of the rake).

And Voilà ! I’ve loved very much making this card because the more I was advancing on its design, the more the scene came to life and above all as I had imagined it ! I hope you enjoy it as much as me !

Thank you for your visit and for all the sweet comments you leave me. You are all very talented and thanks to you, I take a great pleasure in making cards.

Wow, Izzy Scrap, you poured into so much love and passion into this design. The attentions to details to this Fall scene are amazing! Thanks so much for playing Simon Says Stamp Wednesday “Anything Goes” Challenge! Beautiful colors and design. Well done! I also want to thank you for your kindness and feedback in my blog. Your words are so appreciated!

What a fabulous scene you have created and I just love the colours. You have a lot of patience glueing all those leaves but it worked out wonderfully. Thank you for joining Time Out and thank you for your lovely comment on our blog x